Support our pollinators and help restore the natural environment

It’s spring, that time of year when a gardener’s thoughts turn to the birds and the bees.

Andrew Holland, the National Media Relations Officer for the Nature Conservancy of Canada, would like Canadians to add our natural pollinators, hummingbirds, bees, Monach Butterflies when it’s time to spring into action with their new garden.

“We’re encouraging Canadians to let their lawns grow, and plant indigenous plants that are native to the region,” Holland said on the Sam Laprade Show.

Pollinators are essential to the good health of the Canadian landscape, which hasn’t been feeling well recently. As recently as 2018, Ontario saw a crisis in its bee population, and without immediate action, more trouble’s expected.

With the province drafting plans to develop its once cherished green belts for more suburban housing, the need to protect native pollinating species is more critical than ever.

Canadians want to know what they can do to support our pollinators and help restore the natural environment.

“It’s time to kick winter to the curb once and for all, get outside and help nature with the family,” says Andrew Holland, National Media Relations Officer for the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is Canada’s leading national land conservation organization.

A private, non-profit organization, we partner with individuals, corporations, foundations, Indigenous communities and other non-profit organizations and governments at all levels to protect our most important natural treasures – the natural areas that sustain Canada’s plants and wildlife. We secure properties (through donation, purchase, conservation agreement and the relinquishment of other legal interests in land) and manage them for the long term.

Since 1962, NCC and its partners have helped to protect 15 million hectares, coast to coast to coast.